Sea Wolves Howl

Finding your mojo and your people in VERY cold water!

Finding your mojo

and your people in

VERY cold water!

Based on the true stories of a remarkable community, Sea Wolves Howl is vivid theatre with catchy songs.

Early each morning, an intrepid intergenerational group of women and gender fluid people meet on the beach. They enter the sea, join hands so no-one can chicken out, howl like wolves, and immerse in the freezing water. Five characters take us from home to the shore, into the brine and back, each step offering a particular physical challenge and evoking stories, memories, fears, triumphs, connections, courage and laughter. When they brave the wild sea, the differences that divide them on land are stripped away as they expose their bodies and souls to the water, to nature, and sometimes to each other. This cold-water therapy becomes whole-life therapy, unleashing a wildness and playfulness that says yes to the universe with a mighty howl.

A metaphorical plunge into the joys and challenges of cold water swimming. Sea Wolves Howl features older female and gender-fluid actors strutting their stuff in their togs, speaking and singing the words of people whose lives have been transformed by finding their wet and wild together.

Show Information

Duration: 70 minutes (no interval)
Genre: Comedy theatre with music
Audience type: 15+
Type of space: Flat floor hall / theatre formats
Shows per day: up to 2 shows

Creative Team

Created by: Carole Patullo and Jane Bayly with Yoni Prior

Directed by: Yoni Prior

Music by: John Thorn

Choreography by: Sally Grage-Moore

Photography by: Noa Smith Fletcher

Performed by: Jane Bayly, Carmelina Di Guglielmo, Emma Jevons, Kelly Nash and Carole Patullo with Touring Musician Audrey Hart

Design by: Kris Bird

Lighting Design by: Lisa Mibus

Stage Management by: Steph Lee

Technical Assistance by: Ashleigh Basham

Live Music Score by: Audrey Hart

Sound Design by: Reuben Cumming

Inspired by the Mount Martha Sea Wolves, from an idea by Claire Thorn for Flinders Fringe Festival 2024.

Developed with support from the Mornington Peninsula Shire

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About

Sea Wolves Howl

The Sea Wolves Howl touring company is an all-female and gender-fluid creative team of mostly older theatre makers based on Bunurong Country (Mornington Peninsula) and Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country(Naarm/Melbourne). With broad experience across mainstage and independent theatre, they demonstrate enduring commitment to community-based collaborative practice.

The company brings together practitioners aged from their 20s to late 60s, modeling intergenerational collaboration between metropolitan and regional artists. They have extensive touring experience regionally, nationally and internationally, and the performers are accomplished teaching artists, working with people of all ages and abilities.

On Tour